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Anonymous Tue Feb 20 02:28:40 2018 No.4600618 [Reply] [Original]

Is Deus Ex meant to be funny? The themes seem pretty severe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 04:39:27 2018 No.4600771 it's funny and memorable, but played 100% straight so it works really well

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 10:59:07 2018 No.4601238 File: 261 KB, 900x900, 0 arcade games.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4600618 >>>/v/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 11:15:52 2018 No.4601262 File: 190 KB, 1441x752, t1-boxart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4600618 Why are dark atmospherical games so good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 14:29:24 2018 No.4601540 File: 215 KB, 688x630, shingo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4601238 >dwarf fortress in number 40 >its above megaman 2, mario 64, super mario world and halo 3 who made this shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 14:33:24 2018 No.4601549 >>4601540 2012's /v/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 14:45:27 2018 No.4601572 >>4600618 Definitely some of the responses that JC allows you to make are meant to be humorous. Like telling the plague-riddled homeless people to try getting a job.

>>	Muh name fag too !5RRtZawAKg Tue Feb 20 14:48:24 2018 No.4601581 >>4601572 >. Like telling the plague-riddled homeless people to try getting a job. Still relevent to IRL though. Also some edgefags and muh moslems probably leled when they noticed the WTC is kill in Desu Ex world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 14:51:22 2018 No.4601586 >>4601581 jesus could you be more of a /b/tard?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 15:27:44 2018 No.4601665 >>4601572 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68jnuTWtyE

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 17:45:54 2018 No.4601932 Deus Ex is a meme game

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 17:59:42 2018 No.4601963 what lead you to think it was supposed to be

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:00:54 2018 No.4601967 >>4601665 Hey you're this far into withdrawal; maybe it's time you kick the habit How can you...Why so cruel? It's for your own good :) Is this actually a bad route to take in the game?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:02:04 2018 No.4601972 >>4601963 Everything is just delivered so tongue in cheek Are there even movies like that anymore?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:05:13 2018 No.4601979 >>4600618 Yea. Some of it is definitely tongue-in-cheek. I think it's a mix. Games often seem to be a product of mixed sensibilities.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:10:29 2018 No.4601994 >>4601967 It's just a single dialogue choice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:11:58 2018 No.4601997 >>4600618 Overall? No. There are some lines meant to be funny but overall it's supposed to serious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:36:18 2018 No.4602051 File: 18 KB, 643x427, 1473472746878.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4601997 for a lot of lines it's the campy delivery that makes them hilarious

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:40:49 2018 No.4602060 Memes

Anonymous Tue Feb 20 18:42:50 2018 No.4602065

>>4602051
This is actually something accidentally intentional too; JC is physically incapable of panicking. Every time he would react to something with surprise or despair he instead just deadpans it out. Getting sad or upset might compromise his efficiency so instead he says the right thing -but with no emotion-. It's consistently hilarious whenever it happens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 20:11:34 2018 No.4602206 >>4600618 >The themes seem pretty severe. Out of curiosity, what's your native language?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 21:10:22 2018 No.4602282 >>4602051 >>4602065 The reason why JC is always so fucking deadpan is because Warren Spector wanted all of his reactions and everything to be vague so the player can interpret it any way they want.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 21:19:33 2018 No.4602305 >>4601932 ur moms a meme game

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 21:27:14 2018 No.4602326 >>4600618 Ive got nerves of steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfwXNOG0eI

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 21:46:49 2018 No.4602356 File: 55 KB, 1002x857, soyboydenton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4601540 Not soyboys.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 21:48:59 2018 No.4602363 >>4602356 Mother 3 is in second place.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 20 23:35:36 2018 No.4602513 >>4601238 How was this all decided?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 02:27:19 2018 No.4602794 >>4602513 No idea, I don't go to that shithole, sorry

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 02:37:23 2018 No.4602803 File: 156 KB, 491x337, 29836185_p0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4600618 I thought it was pretty funny, but inadvertently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 02:40:30 2018 No.4602805 >>4600618 NUMBER ONE THATS TERROR

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 03:05:00 2018 No.4602819 >>4600618 Fascist!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 05:13:05 2018 No.4602918 >>4601932 What /pol/tards think about that? Deus Ex predicted the Meme War knowyourmeme.com/photos/1014669-deus-ex https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/111560922/

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 05:17:18 2018 No.4602923 >>4601997 JC Denton Infamous Quotes and One-Liners - Deus Ex (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdCqXzaHoU

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 05:17:56 2018 No.4602924 >>4602918 how can you predict something that was already happening then

Anonymous Wed Feb 21 06:12:29 2018 No.4602981

>>4602924
Political mainstream meme was already happening but not in the same way we see now all over the internet by anonymous people, that have being described in Deus Ex as "meme war".
>Political memes have always existed.
>What’s novel here is an inversion of control – political memes are no longer rare flashes of uncensored personality or intensely manicured visual messages. They are now born from the swamps of the internet in real time, distributed from the bottom up. They have grown into a form of anarchic folk propaganda, ranging from tolerable epigrams to glittering hate-soaked image macros akin to a million little rogue Pravdas.
>Like me, you probably have more than a few Facebook friends who make it their life’s work to circulate political memes in hopes of influencing how you see the world. They are our deadbeat uncles, former co-workers and long-forgotten high school acquaintances. They are agents of nowhere, apparatchiks of nothing in particular. And through the raw power of mass replication, even their most insipid ideas are able to surface from below. By typing some text on an image and sharing it with friends, they too have a voice capable of reaching a critical mass. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/political-memes-2016-election-hillary-clinton-donald-trump
This is how Deus Ex predicted.
>Some groups - Silhouette in France, for instance - have declared a "Meme War", or "war of meanings" in their terminology. They spread email and pamphlets that lampoon the U.N.'s proposal for a one-world democracy, a tedious exercise in rudimentary propaganda. With sophistries and doublespeak, they portray "freedom" as "obedience", "democracy" as "tyranny", and UNATCO as the perpetrator of terrorism - an idea as shocking as it is reprehensible. https://nuwen.net/dx.html

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 08:20:17 2018 No.4603071 >>4600618 Is the game, as a whole, supposed to be funny? No. The campy, B-movie delivery on some of the dialog, however, can be funny and that is what has been memed the most about the game

Anonymous Wed Feb 21 09:20:44 2018 No.4603110

>>4600618
>Is Deus Ex meant to be funny? The themes seem pretty severe.
Well first off, your two sentences are at odds with each other. Are you suggesting the game seems funny, or the game seems severe?

Secondly, have you actually played it recently with one eye on actual global politics that are happening right now? Conspiracy theories only seem ridiculous when they're draped in Hollywood visuals and melodrama, as we've been acclimatized to see them. Separate the fanciful "illuminati" motifs and cloak and dagger cliches and some of the themes in Deus Ex hit right on the mark as to what's going on in the world to a degree that's sometimes terrifying.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 21 23:31:05 2018 No.4604743 >>4603351 what's best for beginner - gmdx or vanilla?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 11:54:16 2018 No.4605587 >>4604743 Vanilla, how is that even a question?

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 21:09:15 2018 No.4606489

Does anyone have insight into why Anna keeps saying I killed the NSF terrorists in Battery Park? Someone said moving an unconscious body counted as a kill so i've avoided doing that. When the UNATCO guys start shooting at the NSF is the game counting those kills as me having done them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 21:14:25 2018 No.4606505 okay when I talk to Juan, then shoot Anna when she starts attacking him, does this screw up the story? She really does go out of line. He's captured, why do we have to kill him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 00:02:18 2018 No.4606823 >>4606489 You can knock them all out before UNATCO storms the place, iirc. >>4606505 You can kill her right there. It's the first opportunity in the game to kill her.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 00:10:48 2018 No.4606852 >>4606823 but does it put me in a bad place in the story?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 00:11:50 2018 No.4606856 is Deus Ex the best science fiction game ever or nah?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 00:34:27 2018 No.4606891 >>4606505 >>4606852 it's 100% inconsequential, but it's probably better to let anna live because you don't have a reason to kill her before she does that and it's meaningless to do so after

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 00:45:32 2018 No.4606904 >>4606891 >don't have a reason to kill her before she does that She is going to execute a captured prisoner. Emptying a mag in her head is completely justified.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 01:14:36 2018 No.4606929 >>4600618 It's not meant to be funny at all, but the severe themes played straight and the accompanying serious voice acting combined with the dated models and lip animation make it pretty ripe for unintentional comedy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 01:20:29 2018 No.4606937 I might as well start using coke

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 02:54:58 2018 No.4607030 >>4606904 A captured -terrorist- who she's been ordered to kill by her boss before you can talk to him too much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 04:41:42 2018 No.4607127 >>4606856 OH YES

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 05:25:26 2018 No.4607159 >>4601238 >4. Dark Souls >19. GTA San Andreas I wonder what is the average age of /v/irgin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 11:07:55 2018 No.4607547 >>4607159 They're mostly 5th/6th gen babies afaik

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 23 20:44:56 2018 No.4608627 Paul...I thought you were a GEP gun

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